Two children were hit by a car that had been speeding in Lynn, Massachusetts, on Monday morning, police said.
The children, a 10-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy, were rushed to a hospital but are expected to survive, Lynn police said. They were hit at about 8:17 a.m. on Holyoke Street near Farrell Road.
Jeanette Mourdant found her neighbor's son covering his sister on the ground after both were hit by the speeding vehicle.
"I just did what I could, like took her glasses out of her hair, was trying to take, like, the dirt out of her hair, telling that, 'Hey, everything's OK, Mom's right here, all these neighbors are here,'" she said.
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"My brother, he has a broken arm. My sister, her cheekbone is fractured or broken, I believe," said AJ Alvarado. "Her arms are swollen, her face is all swollen."
Alvarado says his younger brother is heavily medicated to deal with the pain, and his sister is in a neck brace.
Two parked vehicles were also hit by the car as well, police said. The driver stayed at the scene and was cited for unsafe driving and speeding.
The driver wasn't identified.
"It's the speeding," said Mourdant. "I don't know if, like, a light or anything would be of any use here."
